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You didn't ask but surely someone wants to see the rest so here. (Sac Decom 10 Oct 09)

Wingnut

I just realized that since

• There's no problem with gay marriage
  
• CCW (Concealed-Carry Weapons) permits should be issued to anyone who applies and meets the requirements
  
• Marijuana needs decriminalizing
  
• As does independent prostitution (i.e. non-pimp non-brothel)
  
• Illegal immigrants should be deported
  
• Illegal immigrants' medical bills should be reimbursed by their home countries
  
• Public school funding should be tripled
  
• Public school employees should be hired/fired/compensated on professional criteria rather than as though represented by some labor union
  
• Private school vouchers should be encouraged, based on models where they help the poor
  
• Rent control should be eliminated
  
• Capital gains taxes should be eliminated for anyone worth less than say $5M
  
• Any community can and should define areas where nudity is legal
  

(and I could go on) I must be some sort of nut. Am I a wacko liberal or a crypto-conservative? Do I care? Do you? Why am I still up?

High Flyin' George

Where's George? Found this when sorting through tree pick-up money. Neat idea: Track the progress of money across the land. It would be fun to know if any of the other hundred or so singles in this stack are in the database. I said fun to KNOW, not fun to enter them all and find out. Prob'ly very few bills without the marking are tracked anyway.


Yeah, I blanked out the serial number. It's to protect the integrity of the data.

So where had this one been? Nowhere but San Jose, where the guy stamped it and released it a couple months ago. But other bills have been around. Check it out. Notable stop for top-traveler $1 Bill # K24------I: Dallas' Penthouse Key Club, which looks like some sort of cheesy overpriced "bikini bar". Comments on the most-entered twenty include "Bill somewhat worn, folded in the middle. Must have been in someones pocket or up their butt @ one time." Yup. You can't make this stuff up. Oh, you can? Okay.

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I went ahead and entered five more. No pops: They were all first-timers.

Obamanic Relations

According to genealogical research summarized here, our President-elect is distantly related to the following people. It all goes to show if we all had professional genealogists tracing connections, we’d realize we are all FAMILY.

LBJ	Mariel Hemingway	Charles Addams
John Steinbeck	Christopher Reeve	Brad Pitt
Howard Dean	Sarah Palin	Jimmy Carter
Katharine Hepburn	Ken Kesey	Harry Truman
Dick Cheney	Robert Duvall	Senator Byrd
J.P. Morgan	John Hinckley	George W. Bush
Gordon Hinckley	General Longstreet	Woodrow Wilson
Birch Bayh	JonBenet Ramsey	Georgia O’Keeffe
Gerry Ford	Justin Timberlake	John Glenn
Lon Chaney	Winston Churchill	James Madison
Robert E. Lee

And all this just from his mother's side.

I only put names of people I’ve heard of, and I put them as I know them.

Yeah, I know, finding all these links was a terrible waste of precious NaNo time. Sue me.